Title: The Making of Star Trek
Authors: Stephen E. Whitfield & Gene Roddenberry
Cover artist: photos
Yours for: [SOLD! 12-5-10]
Best things about this cover:
- If I were a Star Trek fan, I would be geeking out so hard over this very cool paperback original
- That Enterprise is absurdly model-kit-looking in this photo. Maybe that's the point? "How it works!—we make cheap-ass models and use trick photography, suckers."
- Further, "How it works"? I like how it implies that the tech is real.
- Those are two handsome spacemen.
Best things about this back cover:
- A "biography" of a TV show! Printed while said show was still on the air. Pretty visionary / ballsy.
- Seriously, this back cover isn't lying. This book is Thick and chock full of photos, internal memos, a miniature episode guide, and a chapter entitled "Whither Star Trek?"! Oh, and whoever owned this book originally was a megageek, as there are tiny clipped-out TV Guide epsiode summaries taped and/or paperclipped into the episode guide section. Also, this section is annotated in some kind of code.
Page 123~
When the first screening was over, the general reaction from the people in the room was, "This is the most fantastic thing we've ever seen."
~RP
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11 comments:
From this to "Shit My Dad Says"? Oh, Bill...
Totally with you on the "How We Built the Plastic Model" theme.
OH MY GOD!
I LOVE STAR TREK!
If I wasn't at work right now I'd so be ordering this!
Mr. Spock was my very first crush! I was three years old and in love with a Vulcan!
I owned a copy of this book when I was a wee bairn...
I like how there appears to be blue sky and clouds behind the enterprise. Um, isn't space darker than this??
I still own a copy of this, only it's the sixth printing, released in 1970. I think I must've read the book five or six times as a boy, after the series itself had long been in reruns.
Cheers,
Jeff
@ Sandy: There are some episodes where the Enterprise is within the Earth's atmosphere (like Assignment: Earth). Which makes no continuity sense, since the Enterprise eventually meets its demise by entering the atmosphere in Star Trek III. :P
I'm honestly surprised you haven't received an offer for this book yet.
I still own the original edition of this: it's a fine book.
I also still own the original edition of this book. It is great. Nowadays, every DVD or Blu-Ray disk of a movie you get has several 'how they did it features" included. I think, for it's time, this book was pretty original in what it set out to do.
I owned a copy of this book when I was a kid and more or less memorized it at that time. I did not, however, annotate it in code.
Bruce T.
Just to show you how much of a geek I am, I owned this book when I was a kid. Man, what a geek!
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